Katherine Marshall Nakamarra / Women’s Ceremony

A Pintupi artist taught by her mother, Walangkura Napanangka, within a prominent Papunya Tula family. Her bold, thickly dotted artworks portray sacred women’s sites near Kintore with a distinctive palette and strong energy. Katherine started creating art in the mid 1980s, along with her sisters Debra Young Nakamarra and Lorraine Yungut Nakamarra. Painting with their mother, the highly acclaimed Pintupi artist Walangkura Napanangka, the three sisters inherited her narratives and iconography for representing them.

Katherine’s father, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, was also a successful Papunya Tula artist, as were her mother's sister, Pirrmangka Napanangka, and her grandmother, Inyuwa Nampitjinpa. Similarities can be seen between Katherine's practice and the bold approach of the Papunya Tula movement. This is especially evident in the way the paint is applied in thick, joined dots.